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ADVERTISING AND VENDING'- MACHINE.

' No. 578,438. Patented Mar. 9, 1897.

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M. ARCHER. ADVERTISING AND VENDING MACHINE.

No. 578,438. Patented Mar. 9-, 1897.

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FRANK MORTON ARCHER, OF YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO SIEGFRIED SILBERBERG, OF SAME PLACE.

ADVERTISING AND VENDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 578,438, dated March 9, 1897.

- Application filed January 25,1896. Serial F0. 576,897. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern: In the drawings, 1 is the casing of my ap- Beit known that I,FRANK MORTON ARCHER, paratus, the same being divided off from front a citizen of the United States,residing at New to back by a vertical partition 2. To the left York, in the county of New York and State of the partition, behind a glass front wall, 55 r of New York, have invented certain new and are arranged the articles to be vended, which useful Improvements in Advertising and articles are represented in the drawings as Vending Machines, of which the following is a cigarettes. The chamber to the right of the full, clear, and exact description, such as will partition 2 also has a glass front and is dienable others skilled in the art to which it apvided into compartments by a partition 55, 60 IO pertains to make and use the same. running lengthwise of the chamber, and the The object of my invention is to provide a portion in front of the said partition is combined advertising and vending apparatus formed into compartments 51, 52, 53, and 54.. of a new and improved form in which coins The space behind the said partition is sepaor counters droppedinto the machine are forrated off by partitions and 61, running I 5 tuitously directed to different compartments from front to back of the machine and formfor various purposes, hereinafter described, ing also two of the partitions of the forward 5 and in which registering devices are provided compartments already mentioned. In the to register the number of coins delivered to rear space described there are sloping walls one or more of the compartments, and like- 56, 57, 58, and 59, which incline toward the 2o wise the number of vendible articles delivsaid partitions 60 and 61 and which have verered to purchasers by the machine, all subtical or upright portions arranged in proximstantially as hereinaftermore fully described, ity to the said partitions, so as to leave narset forth, and claimed. row spaces 90, 91, 92, and .93.

The construction of said machine is fully The cigarettes are held between the front 25 shown and described in the following specifiand rear walls of my machine, their support cation, of which the'accompanying drawings at the bottom being made up of two parts, form a part, wherein similar letters or nuone of which is a very thin plate 6, of spring merals of reference designate like or equivametal, secured at 8, and the other of which is lent parts wherever found throughout the a rigid piece 9, forming part of a slide 10, 8o 30 several views, and in whichwhich is adapted to move back and forth upon Figure 1 is a front view of said device in a floor or base 11. The slide 10 is provided elevation. Fig. 1 is a view in detail of the near its forward end with a slot 12, just large device for regulating the distribution of the enough to receive and hold comfortably a coins. Fig. 2 is a side view of the lower porsingle cigarette. In the normal position of 5 tion of Fig. 1, looking from the right, on the the parts this slot is Wholly or partially unline as w of said Fig. 1. Fig. 2 is a View in der the front wall of the cigarette-chamber, deta l of the forward portion of the coin and so that a cigarette cannot enter it; but when striking-springs and a portion of the push-rod the slide is moved backward a cigarette will with the striking-spring-retracting ratchet drop into the slot, and on the restoration of 40 secured thereto. Fig. 3 is a like view of said the slideto its original position the cigarette Fig. 1 on the line y y, looking in the same diwill be carried along under the chamber-wall rection; and Fig. 4 is a similar view of said and will be dropped over the edge of the floor Fig. 1 on the line 2 2, showing the merchan- 11. Upon being thus dropped the cigarette disc-compartment and delivering mechanism will fall upon an incline-13, attached to the 45 thereof. Fig. 5 is a rear view of the lower inside of the front wall of the machine and portion of the device, in section, on the line will drop down from there to the floor or platto w of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a top plan view of form 1 1, where it can be picked up by the Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a rear view of such lower porpurchaser. Lion of the device, showing the connection In the act of being carried forward the slide 50 with the various mechanisms of the register- 10, through the medium of the piece 9, acts ing devices or mechanisms. upon the plate 6 in such a manner as to move its lower end somewhat downward, this plate being of spring metal and yielding to pressure. When the slide returns to place, the spring-plate follows it back and in this way stirs up the cigarettes or other articles to prevent their becoming bunched or clogged and thus interfering with the working of the machine.

The slide has at the rear an opening 15, which receives the upper end of a lever 16, attached to a horizontal rod 17, running part way across the back of the machine. There is also secured to the same rod, near its opposite end, a lever 18, the upper end of which is bent sidewise at and extends to a point in the passage-way 22, where it comes into the path of the coin or counter 21.

When the coin is dropped into the passage 22, it falls into the slot in the top wall 29 of the inverted three-sided hollow rectangular piece 25, forming the extension of the push rod 24, and being held in such slot is pushed rearward by the cross-wall 23 upon movement of the push-rod rearward. If the coin is too small, it drops down through the slot 30 within reach of the purchaser, but if it is too large it comes in contact with the central portion at 19, Fig. 2, and as the push-rod is pushed back into the machine it remains in place until the rear large hole 22 in the pushrod comes beneath it, when it drops through that down into reach of the purchaser, as also do any superfluous coins of the proper size which may have been inserted simultaneously in the passage 22.

The outer end of the push-rod 24 is provided with a suitable thumb-piece, by which pressure is exerted against it, and at the rear it is provided with the three-sided hollow rectangular-shaped piece 25, Fig. 2, before referred to, made up of vertical side plates 26 and 27, the cross-plate 23, and the horizontal plate 29, all of which are preferably formed integral with one another and of suitable cast metal. The slot 30 to receive the coinis formed through the top plate 29, rearward of the cross-plate 23, and serves to hold the coin upright and on edge until driven rearward by the push-rod, and immediately forward of this slot 30 is the large opening 22 through the pushrod, which allows of the large size coins or any excess in the number of propersized coins inserted at once in the receptionslot to be at once returned to the purchaser by falling through the same immediately upon the actuation of the push-rod. Connected with the rectangular portion 25 of the push-rod at the rear is a yoke 31, preferably of the shape shown, extending rearward from which is a rod or post 37, on which is mounted a spiral spring 38, the other end of which is in any desired manner supported in position upon and against a suitable lug 32, secured to the main frame of the machine, to the bottom of which lug 32 is secured the springs 41 and 42, the purpose of such spring 38 being to force the push-rod back to its normal posithrown, as will appearhereinafter. The outer orstrikin g spring42 also extendsinto the space between the plates 26 and 27, but not quite so far as the coin-spring 41. At one side of a hammer-head 47 on the outer end of the striking-spring 42 is a lug 45, (shown in full lines in Fig. 5 and in dotted lines in Fig. 2,) which is so related in position to a plate 44 on the. wall 27 as to be struck by the beveled side of the said plate 44 when the push-rod is thrust in, and so put the strikingspring 42 under tension. The plate 44 is provided with ratchetvteeth 46, which prevent the push-rod from being pulled back by hand after the lug 45 has come into engagement with the first of the said teeth. The restoration of the push-rod takes place, through the action of the spring 38, after a complete pushing in of the rod and after the lug 45 has passed beyond the end of the toothed plate 44 and has sprung upward against the lower surface of the coin-spring 41. Now the head 47 is directly under the vertical channel 43. Accordingly when the striking-spring 42 is released, as above described, the hammer-head will fly upward and strike the bottom of the coin-spring 41 just under the center of the said vertical channel. Before this happens the push-rod, including the plates 26 and 27 and the wall 23 and the other connected parts, will have been moved inward, carrying the coin to a point just at the bottom of the vertical channel 43 and just above the free end of the coin-spring 41. The impact of the hammer-head upon the coinspring 41 just beneath the coin itself will throw the coin upward through the vertical channel 43 into the chamber above the same. At the same time this act will not cause a nicking or abrasion of the coin, such as would be made if the hammer-head should strike the coin itself. The hammer-head is now in such a position that it offers no obstacle to the return of the push-rod, the lug 45 being above the plate 44. Arrived in the chamber above the vertical channel the coin is projected against a deflector or distributer 50, light-1y suspended from the top of the chamber. The coin is then thrown either into one of the forward compartments 51, 52, 53, or 54, or-else it falls into the space behind the partition and rolls down into one or the other of the narrow spaces 90, 91, 92, or 93 between the said walls and the partitions and 61. Suppose now the coin drops into one of the compartments at the front of the machine. It will come to rest upon one of the floors or pans 62 62. Now the'said floors or pans are pivoted, as

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shown in Fig. 7, to a rod 63 toward the back of the machine, and they are also connected with arms 6& 64, which extend beyond the pivot and have detents 65 65 extending downward from the said arms below the pivot. To the rear end of each of the arms 64 is centrally pivoted aspring catch or detent 66, the lower end of the samebeing just above a platform 67, extending rearward from the partition 68, which divides the lower part of the machine from end to end. There are two platforms 67, each of them wide enough to span two of the catches 66, or, rather, to span two of the narrow spaces 90, 91, 92, and 93, already referred to, behind the partition 55. N ow a coin which falls into one of these narrow spaces is left standing on its edge on one or the other of the platforms 67, and the said coin stands thus just behind an arm of the yoke 31. If now the push-rod is thrust inward, carrying the yoke with it, it will push the said coin against the lower end of one of the catches 66 and release the upper end of the'said catch from engagement with the edge of the opening 97, beneath which the said catch is located. In case there should be any coin or coins upon the fioor or pan with which the said catch is connected, then the said floor will drop by reason of the weight of the coin and will allow the said coin to pass down upon the incline 13 and thence, int-o reach of It will be understood that the coin which has thus caused the operation of one of the catches 66 and permitted the tilting ofone of the floors or pans 62 and the coins thereupon is itself pushed by the same act into a locked receptacle 9% at the back of the machine, remaining there until it is taken out by the owner. .On the return of the push-rod by reason of the action of the spring 38 one of the lugs 70 70 70 70 on the top of the yoke 31 will strike against the detent 65 and pull the catch back into place and with it the floor-or pan of the adjacent compartment. To assist in the restoration of the catch in the proper manner, a little spring 71 is provided on each of the arms 64, the said spring lying between the said arm and the lower end of the catch. This spring 71 is preferably a flat spring secured at one end to the bar 64:, and at its rearward end connected in any desired manner with the catch 66 in such manner that the action of the spring will be to normally keep the catch 66 in the position shown in Fig. 3, so as to prevent tilting of the pan 62; but this spring is one of the minor points of the device and many suitable mechanisms may be used in place thereof.

It remains to describe the means whereby the pushing in of the rod operates, when a coin has been inserted, to cause the dropping of an article of sale. It does this by reason of the fact that the coin 21 pushes against the curved end 20 of the lever 18, and thus gives the pivot-rod 17 a partial rotation, carrying The said lever, standing in the opening 15 in the slide 10, moves the said slide and lets a cigarette fall into the slot 12 during its rearward movement. As the push-rod returns to its normal position, carrying with it the lever 18 and its connected parts, the lever 16 moves the slide back with it and throws out a cigarette in the manner already described.

If no coin is present in the passage-way 22, the pushing in of the rod will not in any way affect the lever 18, and its connected parts will not cause the dropping of one of the articles of sale.

In order that no j arrin g or other accidental or malicious action may affect the movement of the slide 10 and the consequent dropping of an article of sale, I provide a catch 75 upon the pivot-rod l7 and cause to cooperate with it a spring-detent 76. This catch is preferably of the form shown, consisting of such detent 76 and catch 75, the catch 75 having a pointed top and the detent 76 being connected with a suitable spring, as shown, the other end of which is connected with a suitable rod or pin secured to the shaft 17 in such manner that the pressure of the detent 76 upon the slanting top of the catch 7 5 will normally force the plate 10 into the closed position shown in Fig. 7, while at the same time allowing, when pressure is exerted upon the push-rod, the

partial rotation of the rod 17 and the conseand ratchet device 101, which actuates the merchandise-counter A in such manner that the register thereof will register one for each full delivery movement of the slide 10.

Located behind and preferably below the coin-actuated catches of the tilting pans and running lengthwise of the machine behind IIO such row of catches is a shaft 102, revolubly mounted in suitable supports 103, and to this shaft 102 is rigidly secured a lever 104, connected, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 7, with a spring-pawl and ratchet device 105, similar to the pawl and ratchet device 101, which device 105 upon movement actuates the coincounter B, which is similar in construction to the merchandise-counter A.

Rigidly secured to and extending upward and backward from the shaft l02,'so that the ends'thereof normally abut against the lower ends of the catches 66 of the tilting pans, are a number (one to each of said catches) of pins 106, preferably of the shape shown, and secured to the shaft in any manner, so as to normally keep the pins 106 pressed against the catches so as to lock the tilting pans in place, is a spring 107, the arrangement, as will be seen, being such that whenever a coin pushes back any one of the catches 66 the shaft 102 will be partially rotated by the pressure exerted upon one of the pins 106 by such catch, and the coin-counter B will in consequence register one for every coin dropped into the proprietors compartment 94.

Fig. 1 is a view in detail of the deflector or distributer 50, showing the adjusting mechanism of the same. Such deflector 50 consists, preferably, of a cone of wood or other suitable material suspended from the center of the base from the top of the case, so as to swing freely in all directions. The eye or hook supporting the same is preferably secured to a sliding piece 110, moved in and along a sliding piece 113 by a screw 112, which sliding piece 113 is in turn supported in a suitable supporting-piece 114 by a screw 115, by the action of which screw 115 the cone may be adjusted in a plane at right angles to the path of adjustment thereof by the screw 112, and by the joint action of the two screws the line of adjustment may be made diagonal. By this means the cone may be regulated so as to determine within reasonable limits what proportion of the coins or counters inserted fall into the various compartments of the machine.

top of the casing between the front and rear compartments and filling the compartments with the tilting pans or bot-toms with suitable advertisements or wares all the coins inserted will be directed to the rear compartments and into one or the other of the coin-slits, and with each purchase an advertisement or other article will be delivered to the purchaser, while all the coins inserted will go to the proprietor.

While this machine is intended primarily as an advertising and vending device, by so making the same as to act upon the insertion of suitable counters, of metal or other suitable material, and then filling the merchandisc-compartment with bonbons, cigarettes, or other suitable favors a game may be played by having a number of persons insert the counters alternately one by one and operate the machine so as to each receive a bonbon or other favor for each counter inserted, the person receiving back the largest number of counters from the tilting-pan compartments winning the game. I do not intend to limit myself, therefore, to a machine using coins or to one using counters of any shape, size, or form, nor in fact to any particular construction of the whole or any of the parts, or manner of combining the parts of said device; but,

Having now particularly described the said invention, its construction and operation,

1. In a machine of the class described, the

combination with a slot or passage for receiving the coins or counters of a vertical passage 43, a push-rod 24, means for preventing retraction of the push-rod when once started inward with a coin or counter in position until a full rearward movement has been made, and means for throwing the coin or counter up through the passage 43, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an inclined passage for receiving the coins or counters, of a vertical passage 43, a push-rod 24, for carrying the coin or counter rearward, a movable support for the coin or counter beneath the passage 43, a striking-spring42 beneath the support for the coin, and mechanism for retracting the spring 42 and for releasing the same upon the full inward movement of the push-rod 24 so as to throw the coin or counter up through the passage 43, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a passage for receiving the coins or counters, of a vertical passage 43, a coin-spring 41 for supporting the coin or counter beneath the passage 43, a push-rod 24 for forcing the coin or counter upon the spring 41, and means for moving the spring 41 so as to throw the coin or counter up through the passage 43 upon the full rearward movement of the push-rod, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a passage for receiving the coins or counter, of a vertical passage 43, a coin-spring 41 for supporting the coin or counters beneath the passage 43, a push-rod for forcing the coin or counter upon the spring 41, a striking-spring 42 located beneath the spring 41, and means for retracting and then releasing the spring 42 secured to the pushrod whereby upon the inward movement of IIO the push-rod the spring 42 is first retracted and then released so as to throw the coin or counter up through the passage 43, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a passage for receiving coins or counters, of a vertical passage 43, a coinspring 41 for supporting the coin or counter beneath the passage 43, a push-rod 24 for forcing the coin or counter upon the spring 41, a striking-spring 42 located beneath the spring 41, and a retracting device 44 for retracting and then releasing the spring 42 secured to the push-rod, substantially as shown and described.

6. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a passage for receiving the coins or counters, of a vertical passage 43, a coin-spring 41 for supporting the coin 'or counter beneath the passage 43, a push-rod for forcing the coin or counter upon the spring '41, a striking-spring 42 located beneath the cured to the push-rod and provided with ratchet-teeth 46, and a lug secured to the spring 42 adapted to engage with the teeth 46, substantially as shown and described.

7. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a passage for receiving the coins or counters, of a push-rod 24 having a coin-receiving slot 30 smaller than the coin or counter required to operate the machine, and a passage 22 adjacent to the slot 30 for returning too-large coins or counters or any excessive number of coins to the operator, substantially as shown and described.

8. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a plurality of slits or passages as 90, 91, 92 and 93, adapted to receive coins or counters fortuitously or otherwise, of a catch or lever 66 adjacent to each of said slits or passages adapted to be actuated by the pressure of the coin in the slit or passage, a rock-shaft 102 having levers or fingers 106 adjacent to each of the catches or levers 66 adapted to be rocked by the movement of either of said catches or levers, a register or counter adapted to be actuated by the movement of the rock-shaft, and means for forcing coins or counters in the slits or passages against the catches or levers 66, substantially as shown and described.

9. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a plurality of compartments having tilting pans or bottoms 62, of catches or levers 66 holding said bottoms or pans in place, a coin slit or passage leading to each of the catches or levers 66 one to each, and mechanism for forcing a coin or counter 10- cated in any of the slits or passages against its catch so as to release and dump its particular bottom or pan 62, substantially as shown and described.

10. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a plurality of compartments having tilting pans or bottoms 62, of catches or levers 66 holding said bottoms or pans in place, a coin slit or passage leading to each of the catches or levers 66 one to each, means for fortuitously directing coins or counters into any of the compartments having the tilting bottoms or into the coin slits or passages,

' and mechanism for forcing coins or counters located in the coin slits or passages against the adjacent catch or lever 66, so as to release the tilting pan or bottom held in place there by, substantially as shown and described.

11. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a slot or passage for receiving the coins orcountersof a vertical passage 43, a push-rod 24, means for preventing retraction of the push-rod when once started inward with a coin or counter in position until a full rearward movement has been made, means for throwing the coin or counter up through the passage 43, a plurality of compartments having tilting bottoms 0r pans 62 held in a closed position by movable catches or levers 66 and a coin slit or passage open at the top leading to each of said catches 66, the construction being such that the coins or counters thrown up through the vertical passage 43 will be fortuito usly directed either into one of the tilting-pan compartments, or into one of the coin-slits behind one of the catches 66 whereby such catch may be moved through the medium of such coin or counter so as to release its tilting pan, substantially as shown and described.

12. In a machine of the class described, the combinationwith a passage for receiving the coins or counters, of a vertical passage 43, a coin -spring 41 for supporting the coin or counter beneath the passage 43, a push-rod 24 for forcing the coin or counter upon the spring 41, a striking-spring 42 located beneath the spring 41, means for retracting andthen releasing the spring 42 secured to the push-rod whereby upon the inward movement of the push-rod the spring 42 is first retracted and then released so as to throw the coin or counter up through the passage 43, a plurality of com partments having tilting bottoms or pans 62, held in a closed position by movablecatches or levers 66, and a coin slit or passage open at the top leading to each of said catches 66;

the construction being such that the coins or counters thrown up through the vertical passage 43 will be fortuitously directed either into one of the tilting-pan compartments or into one of the coin-slits behind one of the catches 66 whereby such catch may be moved through the medium of such coin or counter so as to release its tilting pan, substantially as shown and described.

13. In a machine of the class described, a coin or counter deflector 50, supported by a sliding piece 110, which piece 110 is moved in and along a sliding piece 113 by a screw 112, the sliding piece 113 being supported in and moved along a support 114 in another direction by a screw 115, substantially as shown FRANK MORTON ARCHER.

Witnesses:

G. M. HILL, S. D. DITOHETT. 

